ten years to the day since u.s. led forces invaded iraq triggering a devastating war but the anniversary is met with this series of deadly blasts across baghdad. so i first moved towards a vote on taking cash from people's bank accounts to secure a bailout in what's being called the great e.u. bank robbery. prisoners' hunger strike is said to be growing with activists increasingly outraged by the universe of international humanitarian organizations. and i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow our breaking news this hour at least twenty one people have been killed in

a series of attacks across baghdad the deadly assaults come as iraq marks the ten years since the coalition led by the u.s. and britain invaded the country with their freedom and democracy mission careful of is in iraq now and joins us on the line twenty one people have been killed what further details do you have. sure well we're still continuing to information strips but we trickling out and we do expect the death toll to probably rise to convey we know that dozens of people applauding shiite districts in baghdad have been injured what we're getting from officials at the moment is that there's been a series of more than a dozen. car bombs as well as it was like a blast and they suspect that this could be a coordinated series of the again as i mentioned it had predominantly hit shiite areas in baghdad now sunni islamist insurgents tied to al qaida have stepped up their campaign of attacks on shiite areas here in an attempt to trigger experience

tensions and undermine prime minister nouri al maliki's government in the car to be specific in terms of mourning and today in baghdad no proof so far mclain just possibility holding a walkie branch about the height of the islamic state of iraq as it has been to carried out a number of high profile attacks this year and while the levels of violence have decreased sharply from just. at the moment to a low level sunni insurgency does continue in iraq with an average of more than twenty countries people with the two months the first comes on the heels of a chinee or the first to reach the big conclusion of the romp and we report here in the country the country has a long way to go to heal the wounds exposed by the war. at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.

this was the freedom they brought shock and bombs over baghdad what the pentagon billed as a quick war to liberate iraq turned into a prolonged nightmare. ten years of bloodshed war occupation and deadly sectarian strife drained by afghanistan exhausted by iraq for washington the battle is over after a decade of war that's cost us thousands of was and over a trillion dollars. nation and we need to build it is our way but what if the nation they left behind. we're not. biggest regret the iraqi people are destroyed and the infrastructure is devastated the country is ruined. these graves are a visual reminder of a decade of human strife almost everyone in this country has lost somebody whom they love no one knows exactly how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion

and estimates range from more than one hundred fifty thousand to over one million for years the u.s. claims not to keep body counts but how do you mohamed has kept count his four sons and only grandchild were killed in a suicide blast. how am i doing i raised my sons and saw them get mahdi's and send them to universities i watched them die you asked me if it's better or worse now compared to ten years ago i still have my sons ten years ago so i think the answer is old and it's. others have seen their dreams of a brighter future shattered by years of violence. i was top of my class but when circumstances became very bad off to the occupation i feel that something was broken inside of me. my ambition and everything i used to dream of becoming a doctor or an engineer but conditions prevented me from continuing my studies but an education is no guarantee of work less than forty percent of iraqi adults have

a job and a quarter of families live below the world bank's poverty line statistics that haven't improved much since the days of crushing u.n. sanctions in the one nine hundred ninety s. elections may have brought democracy to iraq but critics say the government is rife with corruption and infighting. despite the various that's occurred in the time of the former regime it is not comparable to the number of theory is by the politicians and the current government. and more troubling perhaps idling during divisions. this occupation separated us and to try to place the political structure with a troubling one which aggravated the political conflict which i see no good in this kind of regime and. today iraq is facing a new political crisis there's tension on the ground between the sunni provinces and the shia led government as well as between baghdad and the kurdish north i think if these issues are not resolve it can lead to more significant problems

including conflict which can lead to i think the breakup of iraq and destabilization. and an upsurge in violence is sparking fears of a return to sectarian strife new figures show that death rates have actually risen since the last american soldier left a rocky soil. how long will iraq remain like this every day there are explosions every day there is killing every day there is terrorism. explosion after explosion iraqis have asked themselves that same question for most of the last ten years to see counselor of r.t. iraq. where u.s. taxpayers are probably asking how much more they will have to spend on iraq on top of the hundreds of billions of dollars that have already. poured in the figure of over eight hundred billion dollars continues to rise by the second as cost man from dealing with returning personnel to the broader social and economic impacts of the war and he now we now takes

a closer look at the numbers. the decade long war in iraq may be officially over but american taxpayers are still paying for the cost of the invasion let's talk numbers the u.s. has spent more than sixty billion dollars in reconstruction in iraq so far that works out to about fifteen million dollars per day overall cost and other aid adds up to seven hundred and sixty seven billion dollars since the american led invasion and that's according to the congressional budget office but national priorities project a u.s. research group they estimate the real cost at over eight hundred billion dollars and they add that some funds are still being spent on ongoing projects and that number continues to rise every second now a major problem it seems is that all this cash the u.s. is coughing up isn't falling into the right hands or projects iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki says funding could have brought a great change in iraq but there was misspending of money i want to give you some

examples of this missed spending if you can call it that there are too many to name but here are some that i think really stand out in iraq's diyala province the u.s. began building a prison in two thousand and four but abandon the project after three years to flee a surge in violence now have complete facility cost american taxpayers forty million dollars but since in rubble and there are no plans to ever finish or use it according to the justice ministry also subcontractors overcharged the u.s. government thousands of dollars for supplies take a look at this control switch the u.s. pays nine hundred dollars for that when it's actually valued at just seven dollars eighty dollars for a section of a pipe that is actually valued at just a buck fifty and when you're talking hundreds of billions of dollars nine hundred bucks of course sounds like small change but obviously it's adding here's another one why spread fraud led by a former u.s.

army officer cost tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks. nektar to government contracts for bottled water twenty two people were criminally convicted but still tens of millions of dollars in contracts for bottled water but for iraqis they're paying a different cost a government rife with corruption and in fighting near daily deadly bombing still blast baghdad streets and a quarter of the country's thirty one million lives in poverty meanwhile war veteran and peace activist police the scars left on iraqis as well as the coalition troops will take years to heal nicely you know america the ball in a china shop you know the iraq we invaded iraq. everything after we drew from iraq they're still broken glass and violence that that's the gist of violence in europe that still exist that still happens is the that's what

happens when you destroy a civil society in another country in the domestic side of things that iraq war is not over for better times you know with the with a record number of suicides with the better of homelessness you know better on unemployment we're talking about the recession i mean is this legacy of war is still with us if you wish that we're still feeling the effects of it. it is a nail biting time to save is inside person waiting a delayed parliamentary vote on letting the government help itself to up to ten percent of their cash to stop the country going bankrupt the unprecedented move to dip into people's pockets is to secure a vital cash injection from the e.u. and the i.m.f. as our europe correspondent peter all of a now reports the run on banks and insuring protests are only making things worse. well the question nobody was willing to answer here in berlin was anything to do

with cyprus in fact neither angler merkel french president francois hollande or the president of the european commission jose manuel but also were anywhere near coming forward with it and so this is appears to be the the hot potato the financial hot potato that nobody wants to take hold in their hands now what's going on in cyprus is this well if you have money in the bank in cyprus are you going to have to pay to have it actually if and it was certainly something that especially the french when i was in france wore a land wasn't willing to take any questions on aids close to him we're hearing it said that if you're going to ask the french president anything make sure it's nothing to do with the cypriot economy because he's just not willing to play ball now that seems to be the the message in europe at the moment is that they really don't know how to deal with the situation in cyprus they certainly have no answer at the moment and especially for mrs merkel you have to look at this as well if

this does become a precedent that future countries that want to accept a bailout have to accept such a levy on their own people who have money in their bank accounts and what does that mean she's been put forward in a still remains personally popular here in germany as the woman that could take germany and the rest of the and the rest of europe out of the crisis if it seems that she's starting to flounder then with an election coming up in october she may well find herself looking over a shoulder of the dutch hero and pay twenty man does believe the controversial tax won't stop the rot in cyprus and will have ramifications across southern europe. they claim that this is a unique situation to cya prince but of course it isn't unique at all this is a problem that we see all throughout the eurozone. and as a matter of fact it's much more fundamental than that it's a fundamental flaw in our banking system about the banks can create money out of thin air that aren't backed by anything and that's great bubbles and central banks

can go on forever with that and with inflating new currency it's a fundamental flaw in the banking system and this is just a quick fix this is we keep kicking the can down the road it's not a fundamental solution until the finance solution is implemented we're going to see a lot more of these so-called one are solutions if it can happen and. in the greece's problems are no smaller than it was this problem there are there are bigger. if you can happen in greece it can happen in portugal and it can happen in ritual it can happen in spain and italy and so what is quite likely is that a lot of people are going to moving their money out of southern europe to other places. and the potential bailout rate on deposits in cyprus is keeping investors nervous both inside and outside the euro zone alexei yeah explain to my colleague bill dodd why russia is particularly uneasy about brussels plan. well you know there's a certain stereotype in the west about the russian mafia keeping their money in

cyprus offshore accounts well of course to some extent there is some illegal money there but definitely fundamentally it's all about the big businesses because almost just about every big business in russia has an asset an offshore account in cyprus and the biggest concern which is now there and was talked about by the by the president by the highest officials in the country does not concern the big businesses in the sense that russia has been striving to have the offshore money returned to the country the government believes it's now the countries are more stable to provide healthy environment to keep the money inside the country so this is not the concern here especially with the government and the president saying that it wants the money to be returned to russia the biggest concern in the biggest unfairness which president putin talked about here concern small businesses private who have the money in cyprus and we're talking here at least around forty thousand people who have their money in their offshore accounts they will suffer and this is something of course which is now being seriously condemned by moscow but then of

course cyprus is in a very difficult position either it risks losing the bailout funds which of course will keep the country buoyant if it goes ahead with that then of course it loses its foreign investment investment so what does it do the reason feeling that cyprus may be shooting itself in the leg in a sense that it's been living off the offshore money for many years now and russians have already started withdrawing their money from the cyprus accounts they may be soon followed by the japanese the chinese also have loads of money in the cyprus accounts and the world is a big place they're always find another country to have their money there. it without a good to have you company stay with us for more news after a short break including israel's political deadlock is seemingly as a new coalition finally gets to work but as we report later this hour there are more bottles for prime minister netanyahu to find it's.

been living this way since the seventeenth century. their rituals are strict. their communities on the ceiling. they clearly distinguish between their role and the alien. and guard their family and thinks is a treasure. when their own country can't offer them a living even loving mothers sometimes have to leave their children behind. i don't like to wonder just depends longer. is the dream of millions of migrants that their children might choose their own motherland.

i want my children to win over moscow. russia has become this stepmother land. migrants working hard to find a way home. hello again the prisoners hunger strike a. growing which even the u.s. military officials now admits but they still deny that inmates are being mistreated or that some lives are in danger as lawyers claim more the lack of response from humanitarian organizations is raising eyebrows and explains. as the kuantan of a hunger strike enters its forty second day there's been very little response and no outcry from international organizations the united nations for example has yet to comment or a good knowledge of the get mo hunger strike now r t did reach out to un human rights bodies in geneva and officials have promised to respond to our inquiry with

a comment by tuesday afternoon now on the other hand the international committee of the red cross which last visited the island prison the third week of february does have knowledge that a hunger strike is taking place but so far all the organization has done is release a statement saying that the i.c.r.c. believes past and current tensions at guantanamo to be the direct result of the uncertainty faced by detainees now compounding this problem is that it's been very difficult to access any information about get most prisoners due to military censorship after all it was the attorneys for the detainees that first expressed urgent and grave concern over the life threatening mass hunger strike that reportedly started at guantanamo on february sixth now according to the center for constitutional rights a reported one hundred thirty prisoners went on hunger strike in early february to

protest the alleged complication of personal items such as photos and mail and the alleged sacrilegious handling of their qur'an now lawyers have reported that some of. the prisoners are coughing up blood have lost two or more than twenty pounds and have been hospitalized experts medical experts say that by day forty five hunger strike participants can experience potential blindness and partial hearing loss now the center for constitutional rights council have sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help immediately and this massive hunger strike and to quote take action before another man dies at that prison unquote the director of public affairs for joint task force kuantan m o captain robert duran did release a statement on friday to r.t.

denying claims of a mass hunger strike or the mishandling of the koran shortly after mr durant released his statement navy commander announced that flights to to the island prison from south florida will be terminated on april fifth now those flights have served as a vital air bridge for attorneys who are seeking to meet with their imprisoned clients critics believe that this is an attempt by the defense department to limit the access that attorneys with their clients reporting from new york. r.t. . spoke to an attorney who has represented several guantanamo bay prisoners and he describes detaining people for years without charge is grossly inhumane. there are hundred sixty six people at guantanamo of those there are probably at most twenty guys who are bad guys who were taken in later guys like khalid shaikh muhammad the

other people are and most nothing more than half of them eighty six of the main been cleared at least for three years in some during the bush administration cleared as innocent people and they're still there and they're frustrated i mean i don't care if you're held in the dorchester hotel in london are the best hotel the ritz carlton in moscow and you're confined to that room for eleven years and you can't see your family you can't go out and talk to people you can't read freely you can't get about i don't care that tell how's the condition even if you're fed the best food every day and believe me they're not i mean they are imprisoned improperly without a chance to get out that's the worst condition. and we've got much more on the ongoing guantanamo hunger strike on our web site you can head that what movie with a former guard at the notorious gives a first hand account of the violence shown towards detainee and we've analysis of

other possible reasons behind the mass protests. hundreds of thousands of people have crammed into some peter's square for the inauguration of pope francis these are live pictures from the vatican the pope has just toured the square and is now preparing for the installation mass in some places the silica francis is the first ever pontiff from the americas and the first from side europe in more than one thousand years he was elected to lead the world's one point two billion catholics last week succeeding benedict the sixteenth you have dictated last month citing poor health. turning to some other international news in brief. series opposition national coalition has elected a prime minister to administer areas seized by the rebels the new premier ghassan hitto won nearly eighty percent of the votes in the meeting in turkey the mask is

born hito lived in the u.s. for several years until recently but it's unclear whether the desperate rebel groups fighting in syria will recognize the new prime minister. two years without running water have seen a time erupt in a second day of violence in northeast colombia water supply stopped when an avalanche destroyed a processing plant and there's no sign of it being replaced at least two security officers were injured in the twenty two people arrested after riot police used tear gas to disperse the rally. israel's new government has now been formed and sworn in it's weeks of strenuous negotiations that saw two political newcomers ashame roles as prime minister netanyahu his main coalition partners but the compromise could main his troubles are far from over. explained. he might have perfected the role of israel's great communicator but as prime minister

benjamin netanyahu enters his third term of office nike's audience his powers of persuasion are shrinking. you need to watch the body language of how this coalition was forged it changed from aggressive to disappointed and after the disappointment the anger will come we'll see that in the open. what's already being seen in the open is that new tone yahoo's new partners are not the ones he wanted form a media personality out yet appeared and representative of these radio set of movement enough to be bennett their everything he's not young contemporary and popular. he's panicked netanyahu realizes they are the next generation it's like a national geographic film where the young lions push the old line aside they get the females and the future's theirs. but bibi as he's called is nothing if not supremely confident over the past dozen years he's earned a doctorate in defeat and how it may be avoided he's

a pro at welding together the broken parts so they can hold on for a little bit longer. driven by the fact that he has some kind of paranoid when you're paranoid. makes you minimize the volume of mistakes that you might do and i think that when he always thinks that there's a product that someone is. about to pull a trick on him he's there were prepared as he is to sit around a table with partners who might eventually signal his downfall. netanyahu ran a confused campaign and a confused negotiation although he is very smart very experienced it didn't show the goals were constantly changing there was no planning so he needs to sit now and get his house in order. it wasn't that long ago that time magazine crowned him

king bibi the influential magazine ran with the headline that his calm could israel but nine months later it's not so clear whether israel hasn't finally conquered an attorney obl in the final act the great communicator might not be able to communicate so great off toward the r.t. television. state has just gone to twenty five plus twelve are most kind enough to the break we take a look at the lives of a community which turned its back on society centuries ago. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v.

channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation no for via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines support palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines it's really human rights group but selim said the attempt to segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the u.s.'s top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars

a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. download the official publication. your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite touch if you're away from your television all it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you could watch ati anytime anywhere. believe us we're not supposed to be public people we'd rather not be filmed or shown on television we're supposed to live a quiet life and keep distant from worldly masses that's what we need if we're to keep our traditions. not to be disturbed too much for.

being with it and leave it to shave. in the nude would we be able to eat it immediately we will be eighty. years. in. yeah. this is a small community of orthodox traditionalists returned to russia just over a year ago their ancestors emigrated to let in america in the one nine hundred forty s. coming back to their homeland has been their cherished dream ever since.